Welp, having seen this thread's title I went to buy ARX expecting to use my credit card ...and can't, because Mastercard's online purchase authentication system immediately fails the transaction. No information as whether the vendor or customer failed, or if Mastercard's ID scheme is just technical issues, and the FAQ is glib uselessness that doesn't address the problem. So I tried Google Pay, but that's just the same card with extra steps, so it can't get the transaction to authenticate either.
Not accepting paypal is fair enough, but no credit card either leaves another CMDR high and dry. My account is directly with FDev (so Steam doesn't take 30% of everything), so I can't take that route either. I don't have any way at all to buy Arx.
But if I keep venting, my thermal core might get bombed
(I'm currently attempting to get my credit union to ease up some of the security on this card. That seems like my last hope)
Update: [Because everyone cares about some rando having card problems] The error instructions were a context-free and incredibly unhelpful "talk to your financial insitituion", and I did. My institution pointed out that they have even less information to work with than me, because they can't even see the attempted transactions because Mastercard stopped the transactions. Good job. Guessing in the dark however, they had a hunch that it could be Mastercard lacking some info that they could enter.
Not only did that work, but it delayed my purchase long enough that the items went on sale before I purchased them. I'll take that consolation prize
